Does your office software impact your work efficiency? In the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, we asked what types of software (beyond Microsoft Office) the IR/IE office used and the degree to which it improved ef...

New RP Group Student Perspectives Report Now more than ever, student voices are paramount to informing colleges' COVID crisis response and ensuring students can continue progressing along their higher ed j...

Data from a recent survey of the AIR community indicate that working from home and surges in the number of data requests on short timelines are the pandemic’s greatest impacts on IR. Other challenges include re...

Each year, AIR recognizes and celebrates individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the success of the association and the profession through their leadership, service, and scholarship. The three prestigio...

Shama Akhtar is now Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Goucher College. Jennifer Causey is now a Research Associate at National Student Clearinghouse. Catherine Garcia is now Executive Director of Institutiona...

Society has been moving toward greater reliance on technology, immediate data, and predictive analytics in nearly every aspect of life. This has become especially noticeable this year as medical experts, government leade...

As we become accustomed to working from home and/or the skeleton crews in our offices, many of us have adjusted our definition of what it means to connect with colleagues and keep a seat at the table to have our voices h...

One of IR’s crucial roles is ensuring the quality of data used to make strategic decisions on campus. This work will be highlighted by a new survey from the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE) at ...

Reports & Tools Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis, Part II A new survey report (A New Survey of College and University Presidents) from Inside Higher Ed on the top concerns surrounding COVID-19 has been released. The...

As you may be aware, the annual AIR Forum scheduled for later this month in New Orleans was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, AIR is hosting a premier event in its place – a virtual conference for hig...

About a week into this adventure, I felt like I had a new job—and in some ways that was true. But in other ways, I was doing the same work but toward different purposes. Still administering surveys, still producing...

This month, we provide an overview of a data governance process. Have you ever spent a great deal of time looking through documents, databases, or files on your shared network based on a request you receive? You kno...

Each year, our Institutional Effectiveness (IE) office publishes an annual report for our Academic Affairs unit, which is one of five administrative divisions at Delaware State University. The Office of the Provost and E...

If you’re looking for an excuse nowadays to spend more time inside on a computer, I recommend visiting the subreddit r/dataisbeautiful. Users submit all kinds of visualizations along with details of how they were c...

Academic requirements of the office leader vary by the institution and the role that the office leader plays at their institution. In general, post-graduate degrees are commonplace among office leaders. We asked off...

Each year, the AIR Board of Directors convenes members at an official business meeting to provide an overview of important association activities as required by our constitution and bylaws. Normally, this meeting coincid...

This month, we discuss who the key data governance stakeholders are and how to engage them effectively. A stakeholder in any data governance program is an individual or group that could affect or be affected by the ...

Higher Education Lee Allard is now Director of Institutional Research at Daemen College. Felice Billups, AIR member and Professor in the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at Johnson & Wales University...

eAIR caught up with Sheila Steiner, Director of Assessment & Accreditation, Saint Martin’s University, who answered these questions as they relate to the current pandemic: What determines college read...

A huge topic for our technical colleges has been the re-authorization of the Perkins law. This law brought substantial changes to procedures for requesting funds. One of the most significant changes was the implementatio...